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eroment of the United States, directed to *
the P esulent “f Pic S* n.ite ‘Pile Presi
dent of the Senate shall, in the presence
of the Senate and House of Ur p. open all
the r.< itificates. and the votes of the neve*’
rai “Distric s shall he ascertained and
couuted; and a*l questions that may arise, p
in ascertaining and counting the said
votes, shall he decided by the two Houses,’
Acting as a j-unt assembly
!he person h ivin- the votes v r
createst number of Districts, sh-’ , ie
rr sid> nt, if such number b- * ™ It
flh, whole nunibcr r •^,'' licts X'the
I oited states. ,u lt no person have o
Vn.'jority, the i 1 r^^*iden t of the Senate shall
forthwith an^ )nrc f ; ,rt. by procla
mation. ‘’,ith tlie number of District votes
to each person for President of the
United States/ at <1 also communicate the
tame to the Governors of the several
Slate- by whom a second election shall be
orde rd, to b<* beid by the persons ap
pointed to superintend the same, in the
respective Dtsiricr?, on a day which shall
hav** been previ us! y fixed bv Congress,
and which shall be the same throughout
the United States. Dot at tins second
clo tion, the two persons only, who shall
haV( had the highest number of votes at
flie fir*t election, shall be eligible, except
in the. following cases, viz* If more than
two persons shall have had the highest and
no equal numb- r of votes at the first elec
tion, all such persons shall be eligible at
the second election/ if one person only
filial! hav* had the highest number of
l-otes, and two or more persons an equal
sod the next highest number at the first
election, all Mich persons shall be eligible
at the second election
The superintendents of iho election
shall in.ike out a list of all (he persons vo
ted for, and of the number of votes .given
to each; which list they shall sign and
certify, and transmit to the Governor of
the Slat-.
From the list thus transmitted, the
Tjo‘ •.root shall ascertain the number of
v< e given in the whole State, to each
person voted for; and if any one person
slirtlj be deemed to have received the
highest number of votes, he shall he deem
ed t- have received the vote of the State;
bur <t two >r more persons shall receive the
highest and an equal number of votes, the
Governor shall give the casting vote be
tween tin in He shall then make out a
statement* showing to whom the vote of
<h * ute shall have been given; and also,
the number vs votes given to each person
vo* and to: f which slaveraeui he shall sign
ami certify, ifid transmit to the seat of
Government of the United States, directed
to the President of the Senate. The
iTisident ol the Senate shall, in the pre
sence of the Senate and Hcime of
Representatives, op* n all she certificates,
from the G< vernors of the several Stales/
am! the votes shall he ascertained and
Counted*; and nil questions that may arise,
in ascertaining and counting the said
votes, shall be decided by the two Houses,
acting as a joint assembly.
‘I In pe son having the votes of a major
1, ot die tilitfs shah be the President;
bit f 1,0 P Pr ' on l ,avc ‘ m ijoiity. and
* k nOie persons have the highest and
number of votes, the one of
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I bo the Fro*. ‘**'•• n>ore bn
me p-r,™ shall ha ve ■'weivc.l the nghe.t
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nt n e second election the. 11 u * ’
resent nives sl.hll ia.mr'l. he'.’ ‘ “' osc llie
I'resT.lcnt votiii,'vece frt,.’” um ®’g
Ilv perron. who e sae. tli.ii].-, nr... lOt.-u
fat by'lie States at the'secnnU ilec,'.un
llat. i” cl. using the {’resilient, the vou<*
shall he taken by States, the represent!.- 1
tion from each state ha ’mg one vote: a
quorum sh dl consist of a in'* mbcr or nt©m
tiers from two thirds of the ,V ? *te.#. and a
majority ol all th States shall n.e r 39-;
sa*y t a choice.
The Vice President shall he clt <ite*f at
the game time with the president, Jin d
also in ihesame manner, except, that* Hi
cre the people should make a choice, ,
cither attue first or second election, the
gn, ate. voting viva roce, shall imrnedi-,
Rt { v r .’' )os<- f e Vice I’resid nt from a
tnong the > ; er6onp v, ho were eligible, and
v. ’p.t f,*r t>\ t,,e states at the sce>nd e
lee n; . quorum f ' >r whirl*- purpose, shall
c*.osißi of two thirds °f <} e number
©t S nat’ s. and a insjev'ty of the whole
uumbe -hail be ‘cccssarv to a choice..
V. ttwNF.s ■ übmitted the following,
whi h -when the joint tr-olutiou submit
t, . v M . Mi uriE. f i amending
Vje cooitttuiiou of the United Sla-esj ie-
lat.ve o tie election of P resident and
V, e President, shall tak<o u for
consideration, he •r { as au amend .
ment.
R . . Amendment.
f i/ 6 > 1 rr -< 0 l ve( l by the Senate and House
’ p .esentatives of the United States
.America in Congress assembled, two
tftirds of both Houses concurring, That
the following amendments to the Con
stitution of the United States be proposed
to the several States for their adoption,
to wit:
The President of the United States
shall be elected by the persons qualified
t-> vote for the most numerous branch of
*hc Legislature of each State respective
ly. The election shall be uniform, by
general ticket, and the person receiving
the highest number of votes in a State
shall be taken and held to have received a
vote equal to the number of Senators and
Kepiesentatives to which such State may
be entitled in the Congress cf the United
Slates, and the person receiving a major
ity of all the votes of the several States
thus estimated, shall be duly elected.
It no person shall receive a majority of
the whole number of votes thus given
the two highest on the list shall be return
ed to the people, to be voted for in like
manner/ and the person receiving the
highest number of votes-in a State shall
be taken and held to have received one
vote/ and the person receiving a majority
rfthe votes of the several States, thus
estimated, shall be duly elected
Be it further resolved, That the Vice
President shall be elected conformably *o
th provisions of the foregoing resolution.
OAJtiNE'I.
UAn RRM TOJW FHB 13.1830
We understand that Adam G. Saf
fold, Esq of Morgan county, has been
appointed by his Excellency the Gov
ernor, J tidge of the Ocmulgee Circuit,
to supply the vacancy occasioned by
the death of the lamented Judge Cobb*
CONGRESS.
Under our Congress head will be
found a favorable report from the
Committee on Indian Affairs in the
House of Representatives, in relation
to the long disregarded claims of the
citizens of our State, on account of
Indian depredations, it holds out a
tlatlering hope that, although long de
nied, justice will yet be done them.
Ihe report of the Committee on the
subject of amending the. Constitution
in reference to the Election of Presi
dent and Vice President, and the
substitute offered by Mr. Haynes, it
will be seen, are under the considers
tion of the 11. of Rep. The essential
difference in these propositions is he
tween the District and General Tick
et system—-the latter being that con
templated by the substitute of Mr.
Haynes, which substantially accords
with resolutions offered by him in
February 1856, when the same sub
ject was agitated. The public lands
is.a fruitful source of contention in
each branch, the spirit of debate ha 9
raged, and taken quite an extended
scope. In the Senate, in particular,
the champions of the East, West and
South have entered the are-.a and ta
ken a tilt in this political tournament.
Webster, Benton and Hayne, have in
i turn been on the offensive and defen
sive. in this combat. The Washing
ton Ci.’y papers, up to the 4th inst.
are, almost exclusively occupied with
thv thrusts and parries of these gal
lant gentlemen, and were it not too
great a draft upon the time and pa-!
jtiencc of the community in general,
vve would recommend their attentive
perusal, as the best evidence of the
masterly manner in which the Giant
of New England Federalism has been
‘prostrated in the dust and striped of
his at h.>i\ It is understood the Com
mittee on Post Offices and Post lloads
of the II <>f Rep, will make a report
adverse to the wishes of those petitio
ners who have tantalized Congress on
the subject of stopping the mails on
Sunday. Col. 11. M* Johnson, who
made the able and unanswerable re
port to the Senate on Ihis subject, at
the Ust Session, is now Chairman of
that CuuitbiUec, Up to out* latest ac
“j *
founts, Congress had no* been Dou
bled on this subject by any petitions
from the citizens of Maine, Rhode
Island, Deleware, Maryland, Virgi
nia. S. Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana. Mississippi, Indiana, Illi
noiß and Missouri—bejng a majority
of the States—they prefering to leave
the matter as it is, without the inter
vention of Congress. On the 3d inst.
the House, in Committee of the Whole,
on the state of the Union, Mr. Buc
hannon in the chair, took up the bill
for a cencus of the population of the
U. States in the year 1830. It under
went a long discussion, in the course
of which numerous amendments were
proposed and considered. Messrs.
Stores, Condit, Cambreleng, Mali*
ry, Taylor, Wickltffe, McDuffie,
Pierce, Davis, of Mass. Wilde, Clay,
Ramsey, Ellsworth, Miller, Martin
dale, Magee, McCoy, Huntingdon,
Williams, Hoffman, Haynes, Chilton,
Scott, Goodenow, Lewis and Martin,
took part in the debate, until, on mo
tion of Mr. Davis, of S. C. the coin,
mittee rose and reported, and the
House adjournedi
The South Carolina Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
closed its session at Columbia, on the
sth inst. The most prominent act of
this body, was the division of that field
of labor which has heretofore been
comprised within its jurisdiction, into
two divisions—the S. C. Conference
will hereafter be bound by the Savan
nah River on the West—the Georgia
Conference* includes all West of that
boundary. The S; C- Conference
will meet at Fayetteville on the 26th
January 1831, and the Georgia Con
ference at Macon, the sth Jan. 1831.
We have not been able to obtain a list
of the stations of t* e Preachers, for
the ensuing year. The Rev, Thomas
Darly and the Rev. David N. Burk
baiter, it is understood, have charge
of the Warren Circuit: and the Rev.
William Arnold is Presiding Elder of
the district of which that circuit is a
part.
The latest intelligence from Mexi
co is received via Pensacola. It re
presents agitation and revolution as
the order of the day, and leaves little,
doubt but a bloody civil war is at this
liine raging. Guerrero is unpopular
with the army—and the truth is, there
is no power known or felt in Mexico,
bnt the army—the military power ori
ginates and prosecutes a revolution
there at pleasure- St. Anna is the ri
val chieftain—and under the watch
word of “ centaralism” his adhe
rents wish to -vest all power in his
hands.
We understand, says the Georgian
of the Bth inst. that the Jury of In
quest, at Darien, on the body of Maj.
Floyd, returned a verdict of wilful
murder against Allen B. Powell, Esq.
and that he is to be brought before the
Justices of the Inferior Court of M‘ln
tosh county this day, by habeas cor
pus, when a motion for bail will be
argued.
The city council of Savannah have
designated the road leading from
Jenks’ bridge to Dublin, as that up
on which to employ the hands of the
State, pursuant to the road law of the
last Legislature.
The Augusta Courier of the 25th
ultimo says, ‘the hands lately working
on the Altamaha river are expected
here in a few days!’—As to time, we
believe the good people of Augusta
will be disappointed.-— The Commis
sioners of the Altamaha have refused
to surrender to the Governors Agent
the public hands working on our riv
er, and are determined to retain them,
until the object shall have been accora*
plished for which they were bro’t pur
suant to the act of the Legislature.
The commissioners are aware that an
action will be brought against them,
and they prepared to meet it. We arc
oQt cuuvemtu enough with the jug.
glerv of courts, to anticipato th.* issue,
but feel confident‘that if eq iity <w
the award, the S'ato will h u vo i,
bear costs. One thing how.-v
er is certain—nearly six inonth*’ 1.,
bor of the hands has been secured by
the resolution of the comsojssi uieis-*
an object of some importance.
Darien ['he,nix.
CHEROKEE MXE.
We are informed, say* the Q,uw*’. t
Journal, that General C< ilV*s report
the Creek aud Cherokee line, has reacu-M
Washington City. From the map mem;;
panying it, and from what is uudersfoot?
to be the substance of the report bs-df, •/
appears that the true line should begm
the Shallow Ford orv the CliuU.dtonciue
and follow circuitous*)’, on thier ridge, p
range of hills, to \Vil!‘s Crock, i hi
line, it is understood, cuts off’ from the
Cherokees, about one third of the !an<r
believed by us to belong to Georgia u-;,
der the treaty with the Creeks of 1827.
So that if it should be established, Geor
gia will loose about two thirds of what we
contend properly belongs to us, under tha
treaty . The evidence in support of the
position assured by Georgia is so strong,
that we are well satisfied she will n.i? bj
content w ith any other lino (Han that run
by Cel. Wales,
THE INDIANS.
The meeting nt the State House •>*’ the
ladies and gentlemen opposed tr> the.
tnoval of the Georgia Indians, has not ptu
duced so much excitement in this atv as
its projectors anticipated. The Speakers
made some very pathetic reinasks, wire*;
received the reward they were no and hi’c,
intended to elicit—the approb ;(ion of i.ii
ladies. What will hb done at the rex’
meeting, which is to be hidden at Faneud
Hall, to hear the report el a Committee
appointed by Ihe State II iuje meeting, is
uncertain—it has tnen intimated, howev*.
er, that the Indian tes are leseJved uj.ot*
the removal of th Georgians*or tkei un
qualified submission to the- red m -n- an',
that, after the country which die white.*
have # take:i from the savages shall have
been restored to them, a committee ui
guardians from Massachusetts is t i hj ,re
painted to take charge of the Indians,
and render them the tame protection tha
has been extended to their red brethren ia
Massachusetts* viz: tak* their property
place the whole tribo under guardianship
— regulate their fi.hing— fukfi their chil
dren from them and bind them out 1a hurl
labor —deprive thecn of ah right, u act t .:
themselves, make contracts, <Sfc. iSfc. un i
receive and appropriate to their own use.
the income which the Indians land mav
produce. This is a sample of the nciu t .
olence and philanthropy of those individu
als who are making such an outcry about
Georgia—cruel Georgia—let them look at
home—at their own doors*—if they wish to
find opportunities for the exercise of fin ir
hum-tnity, and do justice to the l * small
remnant’ left of th-oa they toenmivei
have so deeply wronged, before they nav
el to Georgia to dispense th iir favors.
Boston Statesman.
Fo: th. CABINET.
THE B HOKE A’ Vi 0 LET
There’s a tear in tbit eve,
In that besom a sigh.
Would that that hap!essboom could hear it
And the tear that you see,
Spa- kle so lucidly,
When ’tis shed, may kmd mercy receive it
For there was a tim-*,
When unsullied by - rime, .
That eye beam’d with v r'ue’a cvr s I odor
And there was a day
It has long parsed a.vay,
Since that bosom was sta nless an ten ler„
**#*# #*•#
The cruel one came.
And snowy plum’d fame,
With sweet innocence f! -<t from the b .wer:
And the tear and the sigh,.
To that bosom ar and eve,
Has always been known since that hou^
The tear has been shed,
And the sigh too has fled,
And the sorrowing one is forgiven—.
The eyelid is scald,
The poor bosom i? Ictd and.
And the pit ified soul is in Hea.n n .
oii IT U AllY.™ - ”
It is with deep r gret that we an
nounce to the public (he death of thi
Hon, Thomas W. Cobb., one *jf t': ‘